
Can professional food writers disagree? You bet your sweet bippy they can. But on the whole, those arguments are usually of the “how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin” variety.

On the degree of difficulty scale, getting the average American excited about Japanese food ranks somewhere between landing a spaceship on a speeding comet and fully understanding the Hawley-Smoot Act of 1933.